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RightScale State of the Cloud Survey Indicates Increased IaaS Adoption
Recently published results from RightScale’s 2015 State of the Cloud survey indicate higher adoption of IaaS than PaaS. In a blog post, the company highlighted the usage patterns of Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform among enterprises.
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Groovy Lead Guillaume Laforge Joins Restlet
In response to cloud vendor Pivotal pulling support for the Groovy/Grails project, Groovy head Guillaume Laforge has joined open source API platform Restlet to lead API development tools. InfoQ spoke to Laforge about Restlet, Groovy, and his new responsibilities.
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Node.js Fork JXcore Goes Open Source
Node.js fork JXcore has gone entirely open source this week. Oguz Bastemar, CTO for the company behind JXcore, announced the news saying "We want JXcore to be a community driven open-source and open-governance project." JXcore's latest release also features a multiple JavaScript engine design, including a wrapper for both SpiderMonkey and V8 engines.
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Docker Release Initial Versions of Machine, Swarm and Compose Tools
Docker Inc, have released initial versions of their Machine, Swarm and Compose tool set for orchestrating Docker-based distributed applications. The Docker blog states that the current releases are not yet production-ready, but feedback from the community is being requested.
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Characteristics of Microservices, Applications and Systems
The assumption that a large system must have a single environment, often with a one-to-one mapping between a project’s scope and the system built are challenged today Stefan Tilkov explains when looking into ways to split a large system into smaller parts and comparing the characteristics of systems, applications and microservices.
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Mirantis Partners with Google to Integrate Kubernetes and OpenStack
OpenStack specialists Mirantis have announced a joint project with Google to integrate the Kubernetes container management system with the OpenStack project, which will allow Docker containers to be deployed at scale on infrastructure managed by OpenStack.
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Limitations of the Five Whys Technique in Agile Retrospectives
This post includes the limitations of Five Whys technique.
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ThoughtWorks Announces Improved Mingle Build Times
Mingle continuous integration now takes 40 minutes to complete one build.Sudhindra Rao, Software Consultant at ThoughtWorks shares the achievement.
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Mark Lines talks about Disciplined Agile Delivery
At the upcoming Agile India conference Mark Lines, co-creator with Scott Ambler of Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) a process decision framework designed to help organizations to apply agile and lean for their unique context, will present a whole-day workshop on DAD. In advance of the conference he spoke to InfoQ about the challenges DAD is designed to help overcome and the value of certification
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Google Releases gRPC, a HTTP/2 RPC Framework for Microservices
Google has opened sourced gRPC, a RPC framework used internally to connect cloud microservices. gRPC comes with support for 10 languages, making it attractive for creating back-end cloud services for mobile applications.
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jQuery Plugin Registry Future Unclear
The jQuery Plugin Registry is now in read-only mode and developers are encouraged to move their plugins over to npm. What comes next is less clear as a partnership with Famo.us has yet to fully develop. The end result is that stale, old plugins with no support will be eliminated.
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Establishing Self-Organized Agile Teams
Agile suggest teams to self-organize their work. The questions arise what self-organization is and what organization can do to make it possible for teams to become self-organizing.
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Visual Studio 2015 CTP6 Released
The latest preview of Visual Studio 2015 attempts to fix some bugs introduced in CTP5 while introducing several new features across all areas of the application. Most developers will see changes that affect their daily usage.
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How to Make Sure an App Works with Android for Work
Google has announced Android for Work, a program making it possible for users to take their Android devices and use in an enterprise environment.
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Google Open Sources MapReduce Framework for C to Run Native Code in Hadoop
Google announced last week the release of open source MapReduce framework for C, called MR4C, that allows developers to run native code in Hadoop framework. MR4C framework brings together the performance and flexibility of natively developed algorithms with the scalability and throughput provided by Hadoop execution framework.